When I was a kid, I converted my Show Stable into a library, which was headed by Blossom, the purple librarian and a prototype of sorts for Kimono. I filled this library with dozens of magazines, as well as some hardcover books I bound by hand. I should note that the illustrations here show my ponies exactly as I had them styled at the time. The earrings they wore, the gold twisty tie I wrapped around Snookums's horn, everything.

Aww, no, these are brilliant! Like, seriously, you shouldn't be ashamed of something you did as a kid. It's so cool to be able to see & nostalgic & all that. It makes me want to do stuff with my ponies even more.

My Pop made me a huge play stable/dollhouse to keep my ponies in, the bottom storey was a nightclub.

In my ponyland Baby Cuddles dealt drugs behind the nightclub because she wasn't old enough to get in.

Tex and Princess Primrose were happily married and always renewing their vows, until 1990 when Bride Pony (who I named Lily) came into town. Tex dumped Primrose for Lily right away and Primrose became a drunk and would often have bitch sessions with Dara, the Fashion Star Filly who had also been jilted by her man.

OMG. This is so close to the little zine I made for my ponies. I LOVED Ember (she was my favorite "baby pony") and while I didn't have Moondancer, I had Windy, who was my doctor/archaeologist/explorer pony (and, like you, I suspect a prototype for the characters who would later populate my novels and RPGs.) I didn't have the Show Stable, but I did have the Pretty Parlor, still one of the best Christmas presents I have ever received.

(Ember was also a great favorite because I had to send away for her, and get my very reluctant Mom's permission to do so. I loved her so fiercely, I think, as a way to show my Mom that it hadn't, in fact, been a waste of money.)

LOL!!! You know, it's kind of eerie how alike our old pony drawings are. It makes sense since we were both drawing from some of the same "models," but still. We had the same understanding of things like perspective and foreshortening, I guess! My baby ponies were also in bands at one point, and somewhere I have a little band poster I drew that looks just like these.

I was never really into My Little Ponies as a kid, I enjoyed the show from time to time, but we never had cable, so I didn't really get into it and I never had one of those "all little girls love ponies" stages, but I've always been a huge fan of Sailor Moon and I did something similar with that when I was a kid. I actually wrote about it on my Tumblr. Maybe it will make you smile. http://junglegardensenshi.tumblr.com/post/3505849269/all-aboard-the-nostalgia-train

(By the way, Melany, Britney, and Ann all had a band too. It was called Crystal Millennium, which was obviously taken from Crystal Tokyo and the Silver Millennium.)

Kimono's Townhouse

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